Until you come closer to people, you can never know what pain and what bottled up emotions are lying hidden in the human heart.As such, it is difficult to understand human feeling because they are not reflected through words or outward behaviour.But sitting close to a woman in her graying years, i came to know a truth i was vaguely familiar with.
'My mother had told before marriage that you may not get to enjoy life and you may not have a single desire fulfilled, be ready for that. Since that day, I have not known, what is choice, what is a personal joy, never enjoyed life in terms of clothes, accessories or entertainment. Only toiled for my in-law's family, for husband, for children. Now, at this age, nobody understands me, nor cares for me. I don't get to hear even two words of love. And all my life i only sacrificed for others. Look at my hands, how rough they have become. And now, in the twilight of life, I still get toil and indifference from my family.'Tears welled up in her eyes and flew over. All I could do was to put a hand around her.
Sometimes we find ourselves so incapable of helping people. Only we should never shirk from a few soothing words or a comforting arm.
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